It may be wise to set down all beverages for this one. Wouldn’t want to cause you to choke or do a spit take all over your keyboard. You have been warned.
Yesterday morning, a boy woke me up about 6 am saying he’d had a terrible nightmare and had had an accident in [...]

Hullloooooo Internets! Have you missed me? Wait. Don’t answer that.
I’ve been having a sick week, hence the big silence here. However! Things are improving! I only coughed out half a lung today, which convinces me that I’ll be completely better ummmmmm….soon. I hope.
In the meantime, nothing’s [...]

Don’t throw the chickens.
A puppy is not a toy.
It’s not cool to burn your brother’s shirt with a magnifying glass.
It’s really not cool to burn your brother’s shirt with a magnifying glass while he’s wearing it.

Got any to add to the list??
UPDATED: Do read the comments, and add yours. Too funny!!!

As promised, here she is: our new puppy. We drove to Ohio Monday and spent the night at a hotel with a water park. Very fun! Then Tuesday we went and got Keely and drove home. It was a fantastic trip, but exhausting. I didn’t even feel like eating anything [...]

I mentioned in the Respecting Boundaries post that a little over 2 years ago our cat Callie passed away. Callie was 17 years old, completely blind and deaf by the end. The boys were roughly 4 and 8 at the time. Callie was more my pet than theirs, simply because I’d had [...]

An open letter to a family I’ve never met:
Dear Family,
A little over 2 years ago, our family cat Callie died at the age of 17. Because of my allergies, Hubby insisted that we take some time and go without pets for a while and see how it went. My health improved considerably. [...]